Urban Geography, Summaries of Geography

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AP HUMAN GEOGRAPHY – UNIT 8 (Ch.9)

Urban Geography

Urban

The built up area in and around a city.

An urban area is nonrural and nonagricultural.

City

• An agglomeration of people and buildings

clustered together

• Serve as a center of politics, culture and

economics.

• WHY?
• Oregon's largest City?

1. Portland: 600,

**_2. Eugene: 156,

3. Salem: 154,_**

The incredibly slow growth of cities People have existed for 100,000 years First cities established 8,000 years ago Reached modern size and structure in last 200 years

Urbanization – By the Numbers In More Developed countries (MDC’s) nearly 75% of the population lives in cities In Less Developed Countries (LDC’s) only 40% of the population lives in cities Numbers are changing quickly – because LDCs are urbanizing at a rate much faster than the MDCs.

Urbanization – By the Numbers Africa and Asia are the least urbanized continents. North America is the most urbanized.

4 Commandments of Cities (Eduardo Paes, the mayor of Rio de Janeiro) Identify and explain the FOUR commandments of what a city needs to do to prosper in the future.

In ‘The Future of Cities,’ innovative responses to urban issues Write down a variety of innovative responses to issues with urbanization. Make sure to identify which cities around the world these responses are coming from.

Start of Cities: Agricultural Villages

• Small in size and population.
• Everyone living in the village was involved in

agriculture with near subsistence levels

• Villages were egalitarian – shared goods

among the people.

• Accurately describe condition w/ Fertile

Crescent

READING QUESTIONS 2 List the six urban hearths. For each hearth write the following information:

• Date the urban areas emerged.
• Describe the urban hearths situation.
• List three distinctive features or facts about the hearth.

Urban Morphology The layout of a city, it’s physical form and structure